Style Wars is Back!

WORLD TOUR PHOTOS UP AT www.cargocollective.com/houseofdiehl/Style-Wars-World-Tour

WERE YOU THERE?? The 2nd Style Wars ™ Battle Championship Tour went Nagasaki on the US last fall. 40 designers from 6 cities stepped up to battle live for an invitation to the International Finale in NYC and a spread in Surface magazine. STYLE, bitches!
ACCEPT NO IMITATORS—HoD’s Style Wars is [...]

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WERE YOU THERE?? The 2nd Style Wars ™ Battle Championship Tour went Nagasaki on the US last fall. 40 designers from 6 cities stepped up to battle live for an invitation to the International Finale in NYC and a spread in Surface magazine. STYLE, bitches!
ACCEPT NO IMITATORS—HoD’s Style Wars is the biggest party ever!

You saw it on Make Me A Supermodel. Now come see it live. The second US Style Battle Championship Tour burned across the country in fall 2009. Now steel yourself for an international Grand Final Battle Royale, in NYC Spring 2010, and international shows in Asia, Canada, South America, and Paris. F*ck ready to wear; get ready to rumble!

FUSING the street-bred spontaneity of a rap battle with the glamour of fashion, House of Diehl’s STYLE BATTLING™ is the fresh phenomenon born in the basements of New York that is blowing up all the way from San Francisco to South Africa, LA to London, Atlanta to Argentina. Check out the video: www.houseofdiehl.com

AFTER a runaway first US campaign, a 5-continent World Tour, support from Banksy, Bravo, and Ashton Kutcher, the original style battle competition returned for a second US tour this fall.

DESIGNERS applied to battle at www.houseofdiehl.com. Of those hopefuls, 8 designers/teams per city faced off in knock-out rounds of rapid design, LIVE on stage. Competitors innovate to dominate this runway, making bold new fashions from recycled clothing and household objects in just 5 minutes! It’s DESIGN OR DIE as the crowd and a celebrity panel of Style VIPs choose which battler stays in the game or bites the dust, while hottest DJs shred the decks.

CREATED by House of Diehl as an opportunity for fresh young designers to prove their chops, Style Battling™ is a new approach to fashion, championing the possibilities of recycled/eco-friendly design. Style Wars offers emerging designers and the audience the experience of high fashion without the costs—to wallet or world. Moreover, with concept-to-creation in just minutes, the incredible designs offer an inside vision of future style.

Press & inquiries: hello@houseofdiehl.com / 212.358.8915

“Like an old-school MC Battle, [but] these guys spit out style.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Raising fashion’s already quick pulse to a New York-minute.” —THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

“A huge phenomenon. High in suspense and fun.” —THE LONDON TIMES

“A battle of the most fashionable kind” –VOGUE.COM

“Buzzing with excitement—an awesome night out!” INSTYLE

“The epitome of fashion, glam, beauty, fun and booze…a must-see event that has to be experienced.” COOL JUNKIE

“The start of one designer’s rise to stardom… rip the clothes off a model, and transform it into a jaw-dropping art piece.” SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

“Imagine if Project Runway had one less supermodel and twice as much edge” TIMEOUT, CHICAGO

About

STYLE WARS(tm)! DJs & designers, models & make-up artists, press & public: all come together to forge an interactive style experience described by The New York Times as “part circus tent, part runway show… high fashion!”

At each hot venue, local Lagerfelds step up to battle in head-to-head rounds of rapid design. Cutting, tearing, tagging, draping… recycled garments and every-day objects become the raw material for brand new high fashion pieces—made in minutes! Fans witness the fitness, and a runway walk-off, to select a winner. Meantime, DJs mash up the freshest sounds, photographers vie for pics, and the backstage is brought to the crowd.

F*ck Ready-to-Wear! You better be Ready to Rumble!

Mission

Fusing the intensity and spontaneity of a rap battle with the glamour of a fashion show, and the excitement of extreme sports, House of Diehl invented STYLE BATTLING(tm) as the newest opportunity for rising fashion designers to make their name in the competitive arena of design.

Style Battling

Style battling is a democratic approach to the elite world of high fashion. With so much talent out there and so few opportunities, we wanted to break down walls for anyone with mad skills for fast fashion and the balls to put it out there. We strive to create opportunity and audience for those who deserve it most—the creative, the uncompromising—the take-no-prisoners talent.

If you can cook a look faster than Pat Field on PCP, this is the competition for you.

In designer’s dream world, you’d have 6 months to transform a bolt of silk into the next big “little black dress”. In the real world, your deadlines, resources and budgets are tighter than Shrek in a Speedo. To make it, you have to be bold, you have to be vicious: No guts, no glory—That’s what this competition is about.

Because…
Whether you live in Brooklyn, Bombay, or Bethesda —great talent deserves opportunity.
Because…
Today’s undiscovered stars are tomorrow’s icons.
Because…
Those that need an audience for their work can rarely afford it.
Because…
There’s world of super-talented people out there who ought to be a worldwide community.
Because…
The product is the process.
Because…
It’s not about what something is, it’s what it can be.

After a runaway first US campaign, a 5-continent World Tour, support from Banksy, Bravo, and Ashton Kutcher, the original style battle competition returns.